October 2011
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Measurement Lab 2
For this lab activity, you will repeat the experiment that you conducted last week but using someone else. First, ask a friend or family member to participate. Do the following and write your answers to these questions in your science journal:
1) How did you find your ‘human subject’? Do not give their name but describe their relationship to you.
I asked one of my classmates from WMNST 382...
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Measurement Lab 1
1. I chose the length of my arm from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger.
2. I hypothesize that they will vary slightly in length. Comparing my arms to my feet, I have one foot that is noticeably larger than the other when I buy shoes. If my feet are different sizes, perhaps my arms are too?
3. I used a tape measure – like the kind from Home Depot not the kind to measure clothes. ...
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Breaking the Speed of Light →
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Mukhtaran Bibi →
Interesting Womens’ Rights advocate from Pakistan. She was a victim of gang rape who not only survived but took legal action against her attackers.
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Fatherhood depletes testosterone, study finds -... →
This article is related to class discussion on gender roles (9/8), gender being a social construct (9/13) and issues relating to LGBTQ identities as discussed in our introductory paper.
The study addressed in this article suggests that “becoming a father may make you less of a man” by decreasing testosterone levels but goes on to indicate that “men are evolutionary wired to help...
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Increase in diabetes: ‘A public health emergency... →
This article is related to class discussion on 9/13 regarding women, race and prevalence of disease. In class we discussed that blacks and black women in particular are more likely to get diseases, have diseases untreated, suffer major complications from disease and die from disease when compared to whites.
This is due to a combination of:
Poverty
Discrimination
Ignorance resulting from...
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Rick Perry Under Fire by Republican Rivals for... →
This video relates to women’s rights and women as a protect class (class discussion 9/13). It also relates to the reading “Histories of the Human Subject” by Stephen Epstein.
Republicans, through making HPV vaccination a political issue, are literally killing women to “protect” them. They are convinced that HPV vaccination will cause people to be extra promiscuous,...
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Lapses by Leaders Seen in 1940s Syphilis Tests on... →
This article relates to discussions in class from 9/13 and 9/15 and the readings “Histories of the Human Subject” and “Medical Apartheid”.
It relates to the studies in Alabama and Guatemala regarding Syphilis and Gonorrhea.
The United States has a history of civil rights abuses, human rights abuses and “gross violations of ethics” dating back to our treatment...
One Sperm Donor, 150 Sons and Daughters -... →